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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. (THRODON REUTER'S AGENCY,)

LATEST CABLES.

PRINCE OF WALES.

DUTCH · CHVRCH PATS FINE TRIBUTE TO VISITOR.

LONDON, May 25th. Reuter's correspondent with the Prince of Wales at Jagersfontein mibles that a tribute, never before paid by the Dutch Church, was rendered at last evening's divine service at the Dutch Reformed Church. The service which was attended by the Prince of Wales, opened with the singing of God Save the King."

The combined "servier was conducted by ministers representing the Anglieen, Wesleyan and Dutch Churches.

. Earlier in the day, the Princs visited andiamond urine, in which he was greatly interested. Afterwards, he was presented with a beautiful white diamond, still embedded in its rocky hone

Jagersfontein opens the tour of the -Orang-FreeState

AMUNDSEN

EXPEDITION.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY

EARLIER CABLES. CAMPAIGN IN MOROCCO. BIFF TRIBESMEN NOW BEING

REDUCED TO SUBMISSION..

PARIS, May 4th.

A message from Rabat says the Riffs are continuing their concentrations, but their ardour has diminished owing to the losses they have sustained,

Abdel Krim has introduced a reign of terre umong the tribes showing shackurss, but the submission of the Aitazan tribe has deeply impressed the rebels.

French column, after relieving the Upper Wergha posts, engaged a force of five thousand Tiffs whom they drove off despite counter-attacks. The. cuemy's losses were heavy,

M. Malvy has returned to Paris from Spain, and refused to discuss Moroccan affairs or "Franco-Spanish relations He declared he was reserving his impressions for M. Päinlévé.

INTERESTING NEWS,

PARIS, May 24th.

A communiqué saya that after meeting M.Malvy M. Painlévé lazonigally-says-r "M. Malvy formed important friendly re lations with Spain, and brings back very interesting information regarding Franco- Spanish relations, which are to he on- sidered by the Cabinet on May 28th.

LATEST CABLES. LATEST FROM THE FRONT. RABAT, May 25th.

on the front extending

ANXIETY ALREADY FELT AS TO HIS SAFETY.

Osto. May 25th. The Shipping: Guzette aprrespondent at Spitzwergen telegraph's that there is no news of Asmundsen this morning. The 6. Hably returned to Wellman Bay, General Dangan has been appointed buying patrolled the worth and east Generalissimo of Diana' island. It found the les eón-f from Algeria in the Atianție.' He will ditions difficult. They members of the he assisted by Generals Billiotte and experlition are somewhat depressed" at Chambran. The latter will continue to Asmundsen's "failure to retorn. If the enuman the Fez Area. aeroplanes are damaged, the aviators wil have a long and dangerous journey back. The weather is cloudy and raw and the temperature below zero. The captain of the ༣,༥, ་ Fenn saw, from the - top of“ Amsterdam Island open water to the northwards where the neroplanes might have gone down.

FIRST PHASE ENDED:

Paris. May 25th. According to the Fez correspondent of pin, the first phase of the French operations in Morocco has ended. Fez has no longer anything to fear from the kiff tribesmen. The French will now ndertake fresh and more energetic

[An Osto message of May 22nd read:--: nction. It is reported that l'aptain Amundsen | started nt fvo fifteen yesterday evening The Moroccan except, M. Reynaud, is from King's Bay for the North Pole, which he is expected to reach at fuidnight of opinion that after the Riffs have been

LATEST CABLES.. FAR

THE EPSOM DERBY.

FURTHER WITHDRAWN YESTERDAY MORNING...

LONDON, May 5th, At 0 o'clock this morning, the follow ing three horses were withdrawn from the Derby to be run it Epsom on Wednesday :-Onkridge, Field d'Argent and Elcacique.

PROBABLE

Horse,"

· Bucelias Conquistador Constantius Cross Bow Dalmagarry Dignity Ethnarch

Fox Luw Flying World «Manna

Marksman Pons Asinorum Ptolemy II. Roidore. Sparus

St. Becan Solario Sunderland

The Sirdar Vangua Vicot

STARTERS.

Jockey.

Jelliss. Weaton.

H. Beasley.

Warminster du genera

Zionist ..... Grund Fre Mint d'Or Motley

My Crackers Priory Park Tisaphernes St. Napoleon

Frank Bullock.

*26TH, 1925

EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]

EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN, NEWS OF CASUALTIES BEGINS

י,

TROUBLE ON SIS..

HONAM."

VESSEL HELD UP OWING TO STRIKING CREW.

NOT TIME FORTM REFORM.

WHY THE CHINESE EDUCATION MINISTER RESIGNED,

ZEAL MIGHT CAUSE "TROUBLE. The suit, the dayphant operated by the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Mr. Chang Shih "Chao, the Minister of Justice, who hatt been concurrently all-Steamboat Company, had failed to arriva TO FITER THROUGH.. ing the post of Minister of Education, here from the City of Hamis last night.

tendered his resignation, us a member of It was reported that the steamer" had DAMAĞİK LESS THAN FRAJID,

the Cabinet recently. The following is been held up owing to the Chinese crets OBAKA, May 23th. translation..of his.note to H.E. the having gone un strike,, The earthquake casualties, so· far | Chief- Executive:-

Litt information was available in uscertaineil, number, 127 corpses

dis. Your Excellency has put so much Hongkong "regarding the cause of the

reliance on me that I have won in less envered at Kinosaki, and 48 at Toyooks. than a half year two posts in the Cabinet trouble. Whatever that trouble may be, be confoed to The railway damages are estimated in spite of my bumble ability. I know it is believed, so far, at Y500,000, including the demolished incompetency in managing educa the Hom

tional affairs which are extremely di

In Chinese circles, it was rumoured late cult at the present time, yet I know that the lowliness of moral tone among the last night that the crew had left the ship, students and the corruption of various simply because of some difference with educational institutions has reached the highest degree and, therefore, with a

the officers. mind to right these wrongs I came the Ministry of Education. I have been active, in introducing reform plans in accordingly very active, or rather over-

the hope that I might on the care hand do something good for the youth of the Latest reports show little damage to country, and on the other render sex- the silk.reelers in Tajima. For instance,vior to Your Excellency,

I was Fery glad that these plans have woo your the principal factories at which are pro-approval as well as that of many re In the near future the cradle of wricket G Smith

Lane.

"duced the best raw silk ("Kanal double forme

-is-to-be-set-zoeking agam. Winchester- VSpitb.extra cracks) have all escaped damage always been predominent-the-ide-of-reprang Down, on which modern cricket However, the conservative spirit has College now own the bistoric Broadhalf- Caralaze.

was born, and have arranged to play commemorative matches upon it during the "coming season. One of these will be between teams representing the gel lege and the Gentlemen of Hampshire, a fixture quite in the old styisi

Winter Dempsey:

..... J. Leach. Evgas. Thwaites Donoghue For Wadsworth

Stera. Hulme. Brennan. Elliott. Beary. Perrymaa. O'Neill,

Richards

Archibald. R. Jones: ..... Wragg. LATEST CABLES. ĮREUTER'S AMERICAN, SERVICE.] |'||" REMOVAL OF GOLD EMBARGO.

BRITISH ACTION IS WELL RECEIVED IN U.S.A.

WASHINGTON, May 25th. The Federal Reserve Advisory Council bas issued a statement, in which opinion) is expressed that Britain's removal of the embargo on gold marks "an epoch in the anuncial history of the post-war period,"

stations.

The Sasebo Naval Station is rushing ix destroyers with supplies to the scene. A relist party, numbering 1,300, left Osaka yesterday. Barracks and tents are bring erected for the sufferers, who are still packing the open spaces,

to

THE CRADLE OF CRICKET.

**A HAMPSHIRE » HOG."

"A Hampashire Hag," writing in London paper sigs:-

The extent of the injury to the Springformation being detested, and the per crop of cocoons is not known, but it is to entertain such an idea is bated. While my good friends advise me to be hoped that it is not serious.

content with what is, some are trying to The official earthquake casualties, within and even to past me. To attain their aim. find every opportunity to thwart me, the jurisdiction of Hyogo Prefecture, they frequently neglect law and others" Koown wherever the game is played ast

dignity. Where to punish them. Ithe birthplace of cricket, Broadhalf, are placed at 278 deatha

would feel uneasy; but I let them free, penny Down lies in an isolated posi l commit the same guilt as they. This tion among the beautifully wooded coun- was really the case with the student try of South Hampshiry, lonely, yet

gitation on May 7th. Not only did easily accessible to anyone who knows these young students insult me but they its location. Not many do. Every day insisted on my resignation as their con- thousands of motorists travelling the dition to hold their peace. My dignity main London-Portsmouth road' pasa has been utterly destroyed and I can within a very short run of the Down do nothing now even if I have a mind. - and few of them are aware that they are missing something that many come from such istant parts of the Em pire as Australia specially to see."

· EARTHQUAKE IN MANILA.

SHARP SHOCK REGISTERED -

YESTERDAY MORNING.

MANILA, May 28th.

A sharp earthquake occurred here at 11.43 this morning. The intre was 300 kilometres distant. It was distinctly perceptible in the down-town district.

JAPANESE AIRMEN,

NAVAL AERORLANES HEADING

FOR PEKING.

'The return of Britain and her most important development for the Uno Japanese navel aeroplanes reach Dominions to the gold standard is a

PEKING, May 23:h. ited States. The Council regards thei arrangements of the New York Reserve Omura yesterday, They are expected Bank and other banks to extend further!

Assistance when needed as among the at Heijo (in Korea) to-day; and are due most constructive achievements of the hern-to-morrow, Federal Reserve system, showing that

the system is able to render assistaner

on a liberal nie without fear of ad-

verse effects upon financial conditions in the United States.

FLY-TAKING FISH IN CHINA.

At the moment whon society as whole is inert for any construction, when schools themselves are obstacles to their reorganization. and when educationalists To reach Broadhalfprony one need only at large are content with the present con- turn westward along a rod that dips. dition, I can say with certainty that eda-

from the highway on the Horndean edga cational farm, can never be achieved of Hutser Hill-familiar to ilusers of ut Past in my hands. Indeed, I do not the London Postmouth turnpike--and mind risking my life to follow out my at the end of a few miles cne comes to beliefs, but I am afraid that my obstinacy the Down. This may be easily identified might bring Your Excellency into trou by the memorial commemorating its

by my foolish thought of formation. ble and my fault would be irredeem-associations with cricket and the quaint able if the Government were shuttered little roadside inn near by, the Bat and

Ball which in its palmy days was the

Thus from every point of view it best-known cricket club headquarters in is time for me to go and to let those England and probably the first used for succeed me who are wise in thought, and that purpose. static in deed. My fault is that I am; How Broadhalfpenny-got its curious too likely to put what I think into execu name none can say, but is renown in tion irrespective of the routine and con-cricting annals is due to the fact that vention of society, which will inevitably the celebrated Hambledon Club, the result in trouble. With a precaution fathers of cricket, played on it for many" A correspondent of Country Life against it. I now sincerely entrent you years This clab, formed in 1750 by writes:- do not think it is generally to dismiss me from the post of acting local enthusiasts for the gamaa yinnkec, known that magnificent sport can be obMinister of Education, and Minister, of pers, gamekeepers, gardeners, and village tained in Central China with the trout-rod Jastier Though this latter has no con- tradesmen-beat all comers for at long silvery and very active fish, which I have tion, yet I think it advisable not to re- about 1750. not exactly identified; it must, however, main in the Cabinet. I hope I shall be

if all goes woli. Flying should have end-chastised, an honourable agreement must ed within forty-eight is of the start.

The machines are carrying twenty-fourbe made, opening to the Riffs the doors hundred kilogentamer of benzine and pre-of the granary of the Rift region-nume visions for thirty days, in the event of a ly the rich valley of the Wergh in the PLAN FOR INSPECTION, DEPOTS od rubeint 33. There is a slender, nection with the present student, agita- period and remained in existence until

necessity to return afout,

The ships Hobby and Frùm, axe going French zone.

as Jar worth the few permits, to keep 5 lookout for the aviators.

The meteoroingists perdit two days of good weather, j

SOVIET PROPAGANDA.

M. STALIN OUTLINES WORK IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

Rias, May 25th.

A Stalin, Chief

of the Soviet

Abd el Krim must abandon all claima

to the Sultanate and return to Riff and jenjoy complete autonomý,

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Several newspapers point out that Abdel Krim now seems inclined to turn his efforts to Algeria.

EARLIER CABLES.

EMPIRE DAY.

*WEMBLEY.

Triumvirate, who is knnan na "the IMPRESSIVE SERVICE HELD AT standard-bearer of the evolutionary movergent in all comtries," in a speech

LONDON, May 24th. at the Communist l'niversity for Oriental The Empire thanksgiving service at nationalities, said that the students were Wembley stadium this afternoon was a

compowd of two groups. Firstly, from

Lister...

EMIGRANTS TO US.A.

ABROAD.

SCOTTISH SPORT.

NECK-AND-NECK RACE FOR LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP.

NEW YORK, May 25th..

Many a time All-England went to be one of the fast family of carps, and able to render more service for Your Broadhalfpenny, only to find defeat Officials of the State Treasury and belongs either to the culter or Elobicthys Excellency, but for the present I have to Labour Departments have sailed for the group. It is shaped very much like seek temporary rest-

remain youTS,

there, and many a great game which drew big crowds of spectators and de Parpose of establishing a system of in slender sea trout, and has a small, point-

S. C. CHANG. spection abroad for intending im-ed head and toothless mouth; but, though.

cided substantial wagers was fought out migrants

un its turf, which at that day had never there are no teeth to cut one's gut, the It is hoped eventually to abolish Ellisaws are so bouy that the hook often does

been disturbed by either spade or plough. isinnd and other Atlantic immigrant not take hold properly, and so an unduly

One of these, old-time matches would stations. The new system will first be large proportion of Ash get off. These

have" beca a quaint sight to modern installed in the Irish. Free State with Ssh have extraordinarily keen sight, and

eyes. Hambieden took the field dressed Government's permission.

in buckled shoes, knee breaches, sky- blue coats, and velves caps, while their opponents were usually as picturesquely clad Bats were curved and only two stumps were used A third was not in- troduced until 1774, and then because only two were deemed unfair to “Lumpy”” Stevens, a famous Surrey bowler who frequently sent his straight deliveries between thero.

REAL RUBBER SHORTAGE: MR. HERBERT HOUVER ISSUES WARNING.

to America.

are able to see the fly in water that would be considered too muddy even for min now at home. When conditions are auch that one would think the water just right for a largish dy, this Chinese Ssh sees

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[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

EDINBURGH, April 22nd.

Most of the Hambledon team werz

UGLINESS THAT BITES.

TURTLE.

so well that it nearly always comes short The excitement or, rather, the exeite- at the By The ideal state of things isments in the League contest will be kept WASHINGTON, May 25th.

after heavy rain, when streams of muddy at fever heat until the closing hour at the The Department of Commerce Rubber water car he found pouring into the lakes, end of the week. There are keen strug solema, impressive ceremony. Despite from only one of the sources of Britain's in order to collect small fry carried down bottom of the table. This is a welcome musical. After stumps were drawn je Report contends that the extra profts The ash come into the rapius of the inflow, gles in prospect both at the top and the the Soviets in the Eastern territories; and people were present.

the chilly, showery weather, ighty thou-wealth-namely the East Indian rubber by the stream. One evening 1 spent change from the state of matters a few was their jovial custom to adjourn to plantations will be sufficient to cover all a bour casting where the overflow years ago, when the end-of-the-season their club house, the Bat and Ball, sug secondly, from the colonies and depen H... the King, in a Field Marshal's her future repayments of her war debt from ponds above was pouring inta kunies roused only a tepid interest. Lust glees, and drink strong ale in company

J dencies of other Powers; for example uniform, was accompanied by the Queen,

small lake. I used a ne sea-trout cast week-end, as Rangers dropped a point to with whoever cared to join them. In The United States' imports of rubber and long fly with two small hooks one ho- Motherwell and Airdrieonians heat Hiber-the hearts of these old aportarien- the India, Egypt, China, and Jova,

Prince Henry, the Duke and Duchess of in 1024 cost $185,000,000 and it is exhind the other. This dy was one of those nian, the Glasgow and the Airdrie clubs traditions of Merry England survived. Revolutionary work in India must aim York. Princess Mary, Viscount Lascelles, Perted they will cost $400,000,000 in 1925. non-descript affairs of long scarlet and are now relatively equat, Rangers, how- The prospective increase is unoffici- dark brown strands, with gold tineel ever, with a game more played, leading at creating an alliance of the workers the Duke of Connaught, Prince and Prinally attributed to the operation of the round the hooks. During the hour I by two points. Rangers, it must be said, and the power of native bourgeoisie incess Arthur of Connaught, Lord Cave (the restriction scheme.

hooked six good fish, and got out two of were handicapped by a water-logged field. Mr.Herbert Hoover has uttered a them: the other four got off. hat the two which rendered their customary elose in- order to overthrow the imperialist and Lord Chancellor) Mr. C Amery, Mr. warning that the decrease in new plant- I landed were, I think, the largest of the side play and intricate methods of attack LONDON, ZOO'S NEW SNAPPING richer bourgeoisie. Somewhat different W. C. Bridgeman, and Sir P. Cunliffe ing is likely to create, e real rubber six. This pair gave magnificent sport on unavailing. It is possible that Rangers

"Tshortage in 1928 or 1930.

my 9ft., 8 oz. split-bamboo trout rod. and Airdrie will finish equal and require They were both the same length and an extra game to decide the Champion- A hideous reptile which has a temper weight (5lb. each), but one of them ran ship.

in keeping with its appearance, arrived "out coyds. of line before I could stop him. At the bottom of the table the situation recently at the Zoo, where it was placeł His twin brother, though not so specta-is even more intriguing. At the moment in a tank in the tortoise house. The culuar, gave just hard a light, and once it is known that Third Lanark descendanimal in question, a monster fresh-water had me rather in difficultes, when, with to the Second Division, but no fewer than turtle, is an inhabitant of certain rivers NEW YORK May 25th. some Boyds. of line out, he tried to go five clubs-Motherwell, Queen's Park; and lakes in Southern North America. Doherty and Company have secured serpenthend (ophiocephalus); or murral, have each 30 points with one game to go, a bead as large as a terrere. It s It is announced that Mesars. Henry ashore on my side of the lake. The Aberdeen, Ayr United, and Falkirk It is 3ft. in length, weighs roths, and bas option to leuse lands on Prince as he is more cuptoniously termed in and which of the five will accompany known by the name of snapping turtle ward Island for petroleum explora India, is another fish which takes the fly Third Loanrk to the juniors is left to the from its habit of striking at the object of tion and subsequent drilling.

well. Murral like weedy, clear ponds, and | last game of the season to settle. In all its anger, which it does with such amaz Charlotte Town to survey the promising with a large fly, such as one would use will decide,

Bix geologists are now route to should he fished for in the open spaces probability, however, the goal average ing rapidity that the eye is barely able to districts," which are asserted to be simi- for huh.. There are few weedy ponds,'

follow the movement. As its jaws hara lar structurally to the mid-continent oil- however small, which do not contain secured the point necessary to win them with tremendous muscular, power, a bite Dundee United hat, as I prophesied, strong cutting edges and are sadowed Gelda

these fish. In small pools they run sinall, the Championship of the Second Division inflicted by one of these creatures is pond 20yds. in diameter averaged only 6 First Division, and four I got one evening out of a little and secure promotion to the ranks of the very serious matter, the amputation of

tactics were necessary in Egypt. and China, where the peculiarities of the national movement of each country must be studied and utilised.

MAJOR DI PINEDO.

ITALIAN AIRMAN REACHES WELTERWEDEN.'

WELTERWEDEN, May 28th Major di Pindo, the Italian airman, arrived here today.

EARLIER CABLES.

BELGIAN CABINET.

LIBERAL PARTY'S PLANS FOR RELIEF.

BRUSSELS. May 24th The National Council of the Liberal Party, after a lengthy discussion, passed resolution admitting the possibility of settling the political crisis by the form tion of an emergency, temporary extra- Parliamentary Cabinet, which the party will judge by the composition of its pro

gramme.

A massed choir of three thousand voicea and massed bands of the Guards, Mar- '.. ines and Air Force supplied the music.

"A procession was formed, beaded by the mounted band of the Household Ca valry preceded by State trumpeters, and followed by mounted police, and Legion of Frontiersmen, the Earl of Menth, Beefeaters, and blinded ex-Service men An ecclesiastical procession followed.

The Archbishop of York in an address described the true Imperial spirit-Hoà- our all men. love brotherhood, fear God, honour, the King."

A, RUSSIAN COMPLAINT.

SOVIET AGENTS COMPLAIN OF BEING, COLD-SHOULDERED.

Moscow, May 24th. The Fivestia states that several Po wers in normal relations with Russia re cently refused viss to the representatives of Soviet economic, organizations, than injuring the development of economic in- tercourse.

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THE WORLD'S OIL.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND TO BE PROSPECTED.

EARLIER CABLES. ARCTIC FLIGHT. CO-OPERATION OF U.S. NAVAL. MEN IS BOUGHT.

LOS ANGELES, May 24th." M. Haakon Hammer, who was associat ed with Capit, Amundsen's previous Many responsible representatives of fights, and led the Aroundsen rebel.ex Soviet, firms have been obliged to cease pedition of 1923, has telegraphed to the fusal to prolong their visan work and leave England owing to a re- US Navy Department at Washington, asking for their co-operation, and, the France and Sweden are apparently services of an expert Arctie flier, if adopting the same policy.

necessary, to assist the explorer.

19cach. In larger waters, they are

frequently two and sometimes three

pounds, in weight. I have also, on

蟲

small trout fly caught handsome alender

an

entire hand or foot being an ac complishment of no difficulty to the "sap per."The new arrival being further able to throw its head well hack over its shell * FREE STATE DEFIGIT.

and to strike a considerable distance carp, with red fins, up to just over alb. A

away, exceptional care had to be taken in in weight. There are shoals of small cul

The Irish Free State Exchequer re removing it to its new quarters. ters, which cruise about near the surface, turns for the financial year ended on The "snapper" when at home spende in every lake and pond in China. These March 31st show a deficit of £538,020 the greater part of its existence with ins little fellows run six or seven inches in The revenue, £20,948,114, was £73,186 head concealed in the mud of the rivom length, and will take a very small trout lens than the Budget estimate and it frequents and with its roughi," rock-hikm readily. The Chinese fish for these 4,400,743 less than in 1923-24. shell which becomes overgrown wilk little culters with a house fly impaled on Income tax and super tax, chiefly on, waving moss, protruding. Thur 1 bes a tiny hook, and think they have had account of drastic measures taken to col- perfectly motionless awaiting the up- good sport if there are a dozen or so of lect arrears, sxseeded the estimate by pronch of the unsuspecting fair upon white. the sprat,sized fellows on their string | 2018,000,

it preys.